This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERThe writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER